Liar Liar Pants on Fire

If you want to focus on learning a skill which will be extremely useful to you during your lifetime then learn to lie properly. Our society today, demands that you know how to lie and more so, to do it with passion. If you think I am kidding consider the justice system which is built around the ability to lie convincingly. If you are arrested or charged with a crime and you are guilty every lawyer worth his or her salt will tell you to lie by pleading not guilty. In this way the system has to prove you guilty within a reasonable doubt. If you are sued on a civil matter then there is a need to prove your guilt through a preponderance of the evidence and therefore you always have a chance of winning the case. Politicians above all others must master this skill if they are ever to be successful. They call it spin but the bottom line is it is deceit by way of omission, the twisting of facts or just bold face lying. Think about the celebrities who get caught with their hands in the evil cookie jar and then tell me which ones ever come right out and tell you the truth before they are forced to do so if ever. Sure David Letterman did a mea culpa on national TV but this was after years of lying to his wife and others. How about all of the athletes that took steroids and then adamantly denied it to the public and in some cases to the Congress of the United States and the Justice Department? But it is not just criminals and famous people that lie it is every one of us who twist the truth every day to suit our needs. If you get stopped by the police for speeding do you immediately say to the cop “Yes I was speeding I deserve the ticket” and then smile while you accept a $100 fine? If your child breaks an expensive piece of furniture are the chances good that they will readily admit to it or say “It wasn’t me!” In the past a man’s word was his bond and in most cases you could take it to the bank because people had to have trust in other folks in order to make society work in the old days. Most times it was a matter of honour and folks such as knights and royals would prefer to die rather than damage their reputation. The Military is the last harbinger of honour as I see it because they require this attribute if an army is to function properly and each soldier is to rely on his or her comrade on the field of battle. Even when captured they do not lie when interrogated they just relate minimum details like rank, name and serial number. So you ask, “How did we get here?” My guess is that our Liberal society has and continues to focus on the “ME” premise and not the good of the whole, that being our families, our culture, our society and our country. Rules and principles have been thrown out the window if it means I can get a better deal for myself. The media and the guru’s make fun of religion and anything else that isn’t based strictly on the quest for a hedonistic society that has no moralistic boundaries. Truth is a premise that can make you a fool, a rat or a loser whereby lying shows you have courage, moxy and good damage control PR people. It is foolish to expect the truth from anyone today so sadly I say to you, be aware and always consider you are being told a lie until you can verify it yourself.